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MicrosoftAI: MAI-Image-2.6 Flash

Source description (English)

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 Flash is the lower-latency variant of MAI-Image-2.6, available via Azure AI Foundry. It supports image generation and image-guided editing across multiple aspect ratios.

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Overview

Model specifications

Context
4,096 tokens
Maximum output
1,024 tokens
Architecture
text+image->image
Tokenizer
Other
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$1.75
per 1M tokens
Image input
$2.5
per 1M tokens
Image output
$19
per 1M tokens
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"microsoft/mai-image-2.6-flash","prompt":"A sunlit mountain landscape"}'
Capabilities

Input → Output

Input
textimage
Output
image
API

Supported API parameters

max_completion_tokensmax_tokenstemperature
Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 7, 2026

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Azure

Not provided
Context
4K
Maximum output
1K
microsoft

4 models

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MicrosoftAI: MAI-Image-2.6

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 is an image generation and editing model available via Azure AI Foundry. It creates images from text prompts and supports image-guided editing across multiple aspect ratios.

Context
4K
Input
text · image
Output
image
Input: $5 per 1M tokensImage output: $38 per 1M tokens
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MicrosoftAI: MAI-Transcribe 2

MAI-Transcribe 2 is a multilingual speech-to-text model from Microsoft AI, ranked #1 on the FLEURS multilingual benchmark. It supports 60 languages with automatic language identification, code switching for mixed-language speech,...

Context
Not provided
Input
audio
Output
transcription
Audio seconds: $0.1 per hour
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MicrosoftAI: MAI-Image-2.5 Pro

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 is a high-quality image generation model available via Azure AI Foundry. It produces photorealistic and artistic images from text prompts with support for various aspect ratios.

Context
4K
Input
text · image
Output
image
Input: $5 per 1M tokensImage output: $108 per 1M tokens
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MicrosoftAI: MAI-Voice-2-Flash

MAI-Voice-2-Flash is a low-latency text-to-speech model from Microsoft for voice agents, assistants, call centers, accessibility, narration, and other interactive applications. It generates expressive 24 kHz mono speech across 15 languages...

Context
Not provided
Input
text
Output
speech
Characters: $15 per million characters
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